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THOMAS J. BARTLETT, OF COLORADO, TEXAS.

FlRE-PLACE HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,172, dated June 2,1885.

Application filed September 4, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. BARTLETT, of Colorado, in the county ofMitchell and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Fire-PlaceHeater, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive fire-placeheater, constructed so that it may heat two or more rooms on the samedoor of a building, and with a single fire, so as to economize fuel andlabor of attendance.

The invention consists in the particular constructions and combinationsof parts of the heater and its arrangement in the building, all ashereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of my improved fire-place heater asarranged to heat four separate rooms. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalelevation of the heater; and Fig. 3 is a plan view in section on line am, Fig. 2.

The front portion of my heater is arranged as a fire-place, A, which isshown as made with an upwardly and outwardly inclined back plate orwall, a, and flaring side plates or walls, I) I2, having a suitablefront or facing plate, B, which may be of any desired shape or design;and the fire-place may be surmounted by a mantel-piece or shelf of anysuitable material or design, so that the front of the heater may presentan appearance more or less ornamental to correspond with the room inwhich it is placed.

I show a grate, C, in the fire-placeA to hold the fuel, but any othersuitable devices-such as andirons-may be used, or the fire may be builtdirectly on the hearth of the fire-place.

Numerous perforations, D, are made in the back and side plates, a b b,of the fire-place, through which the heat may escape back of thefireplace to the box or casing E, and I make the holes D flaringbackward, as at (2, so that the heat will pass more freely through theholes and spread more quickly to permeate every part of the casing E.This casing E may consist of cast-iron or sheet-metal plates, dependingon the size of the heater. I represent the casing as made of cast-metalplates 6 e e joined to each other and to the front plate, B, and I showthe hearth-plate F extended backward from the fire-place to form thefloor of the casing E, and the cover or top plate, G, of the heater alsoextends over the fire-place A and the heater E, as shown in Fig. 2.

The heater may of course be set into a wall at the center of a room toheat that room by the fire in the fire-place A and the room directlyback of it by means of the heat radiated from the box or casing E, aswill readily be understood; but I show the heater placed with thefire-place A in one corner of a room, H, directly to heat said room, andso that the side plates, 6 e e, and portions 9 of the cover-plate Greach into the corners of the three rooms I J K for radiating the heatfrom the casing E to each of the said rooms to heat them by the samefire, thus largely economizing the fuel and saving much labor, becauseattention is required to but one fire.

In some houses it may be desirable to use the box or casing E as acook-stove or platewarmer, in which case the doors L will be fitted overopenings in the walls 6 e e of the casing for access to the inside ofit,where any suitable shelves, R, made of wire or metal plates, may befastened, on which to hold the articles to be warmed, cooked, or dried,which arrangement may be a special convenience.

The smoke-flue leading to the chimney will be arranged at the top of thecasing E to suit the location of the heater relatively to the rooms tobe warmed. In the drawings the smoke-fine or chimney M is arranged atthe intersection of the four rooms and directly over the center of theheater, and the fireplace A connects with the flue M by a passage, N,when the damper-plate O is thrown back, as in dotted lines in Fig. 2, togive direct draft to the fire, and when the fire has kindledsufficiently to pass ofi'the most of the fuel-gases the damper 0 will beset or thrown forward, as in full lines in Fig. 2, to compel the heat topass through the holes D in the fire-place to the casing E.

The damper 0 forms the upper part of the back wall of the fire-place, towhich it may be hinged or fitted in any suitable way to allow it to beset either forward or backward by means of any suitable device, such asa poker; or a rod, 1?, may be secured to the damper,

so as to pass through guide-eyes p to the front of the fire-place foroperating the damper more conveniently.

The fire-place heater may be made of any desired size as best adapted tothe apartments to be warmed, and any kind of fuel may be used.

I do not limit myself to the particular con-- struction shown of the boxor heater casing E, as it may be provided with partitions, one or moreof which may have double outside walls, the better to confine the heatfor cooking purposes in one or more compartments of the casing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fire-place heater constructed with a fire-place, A, provided withapertures Din its back and side walls,said apertures being flaredbackward, as at d, and a box or casing, E, connected to the fire-place,so as to receive and radiate the heat therefrom, substantially asdescribed.

2.1 A fireplaceheaterv constructed with a fire-place, A, havingapertures in its back and side walls, a box or casing, E, connected tothe fire-placeto receive the heat therefrom, and. a damper, 0, arrangedwith relation to the fireplace, casing, and smoke-flue, substantially asshown and described.

3. A fire-place heater constructed with a fire-place, A, havingapertures in its back and THOMAS J; BARTLETT.

Witnesses:

F. G. MARTIN, G. B. Hoornn.

